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Joshua Reynolds
English
Artist
About the author
The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
Joshua Reynolds,
English
Artist
#Art
#Labor
#Pleasure
#Value
#Rank
Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.
Joshua Reynolds,
English
Artist
#Words
#Work
#End
#Language
#Conviction
Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing.
Joshua Reynolds,
English
Artist
#Nothing
#Invention
#Memory
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
Joshua Reynolds,
English
Artist
#Character
#Man
The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.
Joshua Reynolds,
English
Artist
#Man
#Nation
#Taste
It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.
Joshua Reynolds,
English
Artist
#Talk
#Poor
#Eloquence
If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
Joshua Reynolds,
English
Artist
#Will
Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.
Joshua Reynolds,
English
Artist
#Purpose
#Teachers
Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
Joshua Reynolds,
English
Artist
#Rules
#Genius
#Taste
All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.
Joshua Reynolds,
English
Artist
#Children
#Dancing
A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.
Joshua Reynolds,
English
Artist
#Thoughts
A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.
Joshua Reynolds,
English
Artist
#Nature